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Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=193693
IDF Intelligence Chief Warns: Iran Laying Ground for Two New Nuclear Sites
(Jerusalem Post) Rebecca Anna Stoil - The outgoing head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday: "The next conflict, even if it is limited in scale, will be much bigger, much broader, and with many more casualties than we saw in Operation Cast Lead [in Gaza] or the Second Lebanon War." Yadlin warned that the cutting-edge anti-aircraft system that Syria has purchased from Russia could send the Israel Air Force's capabilities "back to their status in the 1970s Suez years." In addition, the Russians are upgrading older Syrian weapons systems to make them far more advanced. He said the Syrians are conducting "intense efforts to acquire extremely advanced weapons - so advanced that everything just off of the production line in Russia ends up in Syria." Yadlin also disclosed that Israel had detected the Iranians laying the groundwork for two new nuclear sites. "Iran is the greatest threat to Israel and to the well-being of the entire region," he said. And Iran already had enough uranium enriched to 20% to make one nuclear bomb.